Wowzers! Look what's on tonight!

[Kazuo Kiriyama]

10:30pm on C4 tonight, Keith Allen hangs out with the Westboro Baptist Church, who you may know from the recent Louis Theroux documentary, or just general news stories about them being massive bell-ends.

[klaatu!]

Yes, I noticed that. The publicity for the programme has been surprisingly low-key.

[Ambient Sheep]

Post about the Keith Allen Westboro Baptist Church programme moved to here.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

One of the best Simpsons on tonight on 4 at 6.00pm. Homer Vs The Eighteenth Amendment.

[surreal]

For anyone who has access to More4, they're starting a Ken Russell season with "The Devils" tonight at 11.05pm...

[Huzzie]

Fuck! Requiem for a Dream is on BBC2. Thing is, it's been on for an hour already. I'm still going to watch it though cause it's great.

[Borboski]

You do that Huzzie mate.

:)

[Huzzie]

You do that Huzzie mate.

:)

I did.

I think I will make a quick sandwych before I go to kip now. Cheese, cause I like cheese best.

[Dark Sky]

An evening of Requiem For A Dream and cheese eating will surely provoke some fascinating night terrors, methinks...

[Famous Mortimer]

4:30 this afternoon on Zone Horror is "Waxwork 2", a pretty funny horror film with Bruce Campbell popping up in it.

[The Plaque Goblin]

Hey, what happened to 'Dispatches: The Great Green Smoke Screen' that was supposed to be on Ch4 at 8pm?

[levitica]

It's on in a week or two instead.

[buttgammon]

Hey, what happened to 'Dispatches: The Great Green Smoke Screen' that was supposed to be on Ch4 at 8pm?

Smokescreen=cover-up=covers=covers on the courts of Wimbledon=Wimbledon=London=bombs that failed to explode several days ago

It's a conspiracy!

[DocDaneeka]

The Ramones documentary End Of The Century is on at 10:30 tonight on More4.

[_Hypnotoad_]

T in the park just starting on BBC3 (or maybe BBC4)

[Huzzie]

On UKTV people now is a documentary about Shaun Ryder. It is called The Agony and the Ecstasy. It has been on before and it is really good.

[Captain Crunch]

Mentioned a few times on here before, tonight there's a documentary about the Nazi Pop Twins:

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/N/nazi_pop/index.html

Channel 4, 10.30

[Huzzie]

Not a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it is a nice, fun, lighthearted picture that requires little going on upstairs to follow.

Steve Coogans The Parole Officer on C4 tonight at 11:10

[Catalogue Trousers]

Nine pm, BBC2, tonight (Sunday): presumably to tie in with the British Cinema Forever season (which so far has been rather good): From Russia With Love.

Okay, hardly rare, but it's partly here because (a) it's still good! /homersimpson and (b) because of the amazing if sadly geekish thrill that, other than Never Say Never Again and the Niven Casino Royale, this has got to be the first time in decades - if ever - that a Bond film has turned up on the BBC, other than in the form of clips...

[surreal]

More4 are showing "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" tonight at 10pm:

True Stories: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Film

Wednesday 01 August
10:00pm - 12:10am
More4

Oscar-nominated documentary which charts the rise and fall of one of America's biggest corporations, energy company Enron, and the resulting controversy when it filed for bankruptcy in December 2001. The film explains the inner working of American corporate structure in plain and simple terms and offers a fascinating insight into how the illegal actions and irresponsible behaviour of the company's top individuals led to its downfall - destroying the pension funds of its workers in the process.

supposed to be very good.

but clashing with that, Film4 has "Brick" at 9pm.

[Go With The Flow]

Cheers for the "Brick" heads up! I really wanted to see it at the cinema but never managed to go.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

Switch on subtitles for Brick if you have that option.  The sound is poor generally, but also they're using a very chandleresque dialogue.

Oh and if you watch the Enron movie, be aware that you will most likely to be feeling extremely angry at capitalism by the end.

[Marv Orange]

Brick is crap. It really isnt 2005's Donnie Darko (which is one of the blurbs on the case).

[buttgammon]

I play brick on my iPod. It can be very frustrating at times and while I enjoy it if I'm doing well, I can't believe they have made a film spin-off of it.

[surreal]

Brick is crap. It really isnt 2005's Donnie Darko (which is one of the blurbs on the case).

Its not crap, but admittedly it does use rather odd dialogue (Raymond-Chandler-esque as Santa's Boyfriend pointed out) which makes it difficult to follow at times.

[Marv Orange]

Doesnt make it hard to follow, makes it ridiculous having a teenager talk like a 1950's detective.

[joeyzaza]

"Dogtown and Z-Boys" is on channel 4 tonight at 10:40:

Documentary charting the history of skateboarding, from its Seventies emergence as a land-based form of surfing in Los Angeles and its subsequent explosion of popularity worldwide, to its current status as a widely-practised extreme sport. Narrated by Sean Penn, with contributions from experts Jay Adams and Tony Alva

DIRECTOR: Stacy Peralta
2001

Lots of good stuff about breaking into swanky houses, draining the pools and skating in them.

[Huzzie]

12 monkeys is just starting on a satellite channel called "FX" now. If it is too short notice, there is an FX+1.

EDIT: I have never heard anyone mention this before but surely I am not the only one to notice. Does anyone else see any connection between Brad Pitts character and Denis Hoppers character in Apoc Now? Both great actors of their times but I am sure Bradley Pith took great inspiration from Hoppers AN and other characters.


Ewwww, I hate the audio editing on that Pitt line, his first scene in the psych ward, "Urgghh gettoutta my chair!!".

[GratefulApe]

Sorry, this isn't a head ups, but did anyone else just see Storyville: TV Junkie on BBC 2? Possibly one of the bleakest, most gruelling films I've ever watched, as he just kept on fucking up his life, but you really wanted him to break out of it and do well. I know it was really his fault all along, and he came across quite a lot of the time as a dickhead, albeit one who elicited a degree of sympathy, particularly towards the end.

[Blumf]

Tonight (early Monday morning), ITV3 00:55 Being There

Only saw it the first time myself last year and it is brilliant.